{"id":534,"date":"2022-06-15T14:46:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=534"},"modified":"2022-06-15T14:46:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:46:22","slug":"the-2022-school-calender-has-been-postponed-until-further-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"The 2022 School Calender Has Been Postponed Until Further Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 Dec 2021<br><br>Charlene Thabisile Mguni<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has deferred indefinitely the 2022 school calendar until further notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a bid to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, the opening of the schools has been postponed because new Omicron variant is highly transimmisible and schools are said to be super spreader events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President said that only examination classes will continue with the scheduled timetable, however the general school calendar will be delayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;With the exemption of examination classes which resume classes as announced by the responsible ministry, the general school calendar is hereby delayed until further notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Examination classes exempt from this delay are, however expected to strictly comply with preventive public health measures&#8221;, said ED Mnangagwa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Omicron variant is highly mutative and transmit the virus at a very fast pace, in France is it said to infect at least 2 people per every two seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coming back home, in the last 3 days, Zimbabwe has recorded at least 30 deaths daily and over a thousand infection cases everyday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All in all, the pandemic has had a negative impact in the academics calender since it was first detected in March 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The School Calender has not been the same since, going through adjustments because Covid-19 induced lock downs. Normally the calender has three terms per year, but ever since the coronavirus pandemic, haphazardness has been the order of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/DUiXsj7mMmn3dWVgEhDJLt\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Even when school attendance was announced, pupils have had to attend class every other day. The online as radio lessons have not produced a sly good results and was highly critisized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2022 calender was set to have a normal three terms as was announced by The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education(MOPSE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The schools were supposed to open in 10 days time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the same announcement made, the President said that level 2 was extended with an additional 2 weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31 Dec 2021 Charlene Thabisile Mguni President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has deferred indefinitely the 2022 school calendar until further notice. In a bid to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, the opening&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}